Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-22
MARRIAGE.
Looked at In Different Lights
A Word to Single Men.
Philadelphia ENQUIRER.

a Word to Single Men.
Philadelphia Enquirer.
Among the topics of social interest
treated in the magazines of the month is
one entitled evils of Unequal Mar
riages," from the pen of Edith Langdon,
printed in the Brooklyn Magazine. Mat
rlmonyis subject of the greatest i'm
pOrtance to both men and women, and any
suggestions that bring about more seri-
Gus consideration of the MISTER are sure
to bring forth good fruit. A happy mar
riage is the synonym of happy life; an
unhappy marriage, of continuous misery.
And yet, while conscious of these facts, in
telligent and apparently otherwise we'll
balanced men and women every day
marry IN haste and repent at leisure
Society is conscious of this folly of human
ity, and the law recognizes it by offering
the painful remedy of divorce The
writer thinks there would be no need for
this remedy if men and women WOuld
only do little thinking beforehand; but
Of this there is not much hope. The matri-
mOnial wrecks of the past are unavaiIing
signals of danger, the VoYagers contln-
ually set forth upon the sea that is to
bring to them only disaster.
HAPPINESS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS.
1.-THE world 'marries and is given in
MARRIAGE and the Wedding-bells ring on
from are to age increasingly, and yet how
few who witness the life contract of
brides and bridegroOms stop to consider
the tremendous Importance of so brief a
ceremony. Upon the mental, moral and
physical qualities of the man and of the
woman may depend the actions and re-
suits of actions of succession
of human beings IN generations
yet TO come. The ungOverned
will descendS from sire to son, and
the secretiveness or acqui. itiVeness, IN
controlled by other qualities, in the father
or the mother, may make the thief, the
liar, or the miseT, who, a few decades
hence, will be the lack sheep of the fam
lily fold. An ungOverHable temper mar
ried to an ungOVernsble temper may beget
the murderer whom society is forced to
hang for it's own protection, but who may
be as irresponsible before the tribunal
of supreme Justice as the lunatiC is now
held 10 be before our earthly courts. 1t
has been said, COar5ely perhaps, in the
ears of modern refinement, but with per-
feet truth, that while we take every pre-
caution to insure high qualities in the
higher types of dogs and horses, we seem
TO think it matter of 70 consequence to
insure NOBLE nature to our own off
spring" These are subjects that will
bear thinking about, and yet the sentiment
of youth is too strong within US to agree
with the writer that love is 8 feeling
wholly amenable to reason. When il
comes to marriage that is quite another
matter. There may be very grave rea-
sons why man or a woman should not
marry first love, or second love, for
that matter. II the hot-headed youth can
be made to reason about that, well and
good; out it does not follow that they can
persuade their hearts to adore Whomso-
ever it seems wise to adore. We must
i'll believe in the two Old-fashiOned
souls with but single thought and in
the ideality of such union.
EQUALITY IN MARRIAGE.
"The genius of Milton" says the writer,
"never found a sweeter theme than the
ideal marriage of our first parents in
Eden, yet he who wrote so beautifully of
the married state was himself the victim
of en- unhappy marriage. Indeed, men of
genius have, perhaps, been more unfortu-
nate in this respect than ordinary mortals,
because, living on q higher plane of
thought, it was more difficult for them to
find helpmate equal to themselves. The
same is true, although, not to the same
extent, of women of genius who have
married men inferior to themselves in
mind, because q woman's nature has not
only more endurance bat more adaptable